Enero Zapatista 2025
Tending to our dream from below:
Rooted in Zapatista Principles

A group of individual activists, community-based organizers and collectives based in Oakland, San Francisco and other parts and cities of the Bay Area have organized the second annual Enero Zapatista, “Tending to our dreams from below: Rooted in the Zapatista Principles,” a month-long series of gatherings and forums with art, poetry, music, discussions of land justice, sovereignty and solidarity from Chiapas to Palestine. (See Enero Zapatista calendar below.)

Cine Libre: Short FIlms & Reportback from Palestine

Starting on Saturday, January 4, 2025 (6:30-9:30pm), Enero Zapatista will kick off the month of actitives with “Cine Libre: Short Films & Reportback from Palestine.” featuring a series of short films by Palestinian artists and film-makers that probe the inersections of art, culture and resistance in the mulfaceted struggles facing the Palestinian people under brutal occupation, facing genocide and the seige of Gaza now in its 15th month. A member of the Chiapas Support Committee, who attended as part of a Sexta Grietas del Norte delegation an international gathering in Palestine, will be giving a reportback. Cine Libre will be held at the Medicine for Nighmares Bookstore & Gallery in San Francisco. Click here for more information.

Alma de Mi Alma, Rouh il Rouh, Iyolilis noyolilis, Soul of my Soul: Enero Zapatista Poetry Night

Join us for a very special night of music and poetry centering the struggles for liberation that unite us from Chiapas to Palestine. Featuring poets and musicians from across the Bay Area: Arnoldo García, Camellia Boutros, Dina Omar, Evelyn Donaji Arellano, Josiah Luis Alderete, Leora (Lee) Kava, Leslie Quintanilla,  Lorene Zouzounis, Lubna Morrar, Mo Sati, Sara Borjas, Sara O’Neil, and Stevie Redwoo

Soul of my Soul will be space to remember and commemorate our martyrs in the struggle for liberation in Palestine. May we honor memory and imagine other worlds by finding connection and inspiration in the Zapatista’s principles, the Palestinian people’s steadfast resistance to occupation and the Zapatista’s call for solidarity in our common struggles.

Enero Zapatista 2025 Calendar

To view the Enero Zapatista 2025 schedule online visit their Instagram blog @enerozapatista.bayarea.